Where did the year go? Here is the last post for 2019, wow!

Here is the last in A Markham Sisters Collection: MNOP, the short stories by Diana Xarissa: The Patrone Case. William Chalmers (owns an antique store) is interviewing for an assistant and one of the sisters is helping out. The applicants seem, well, less than qualified and he puts them off with ‘I’ll be making my selection this week’. Then a brick is tossed through the window at the front of the store. Is there a connection? And what about the two couples staying at the B&B? What’s going on with them? As I’ve said before, these are charming little mysteries that are just fun to read.

No More Dead Dogs, by Gordon Korman, comes from a recommendation by Constant Reader. It’s a juvie read, so won’t take you long. There are great characters here, the main one being a student who wrote a scathing review of a teacher’s favorite book (it won an award). One argument being that any time a dog book had an award sticker on the cover, you know the dog will die. He was given detention when he refused to change his review, which lead to him being assigned to help out with the drama club’s presentation of (you guessed it) that very book! The changes he makes should make you chuckle. :-)

Happy New Year everyone!

Reading Hermit With Dog